A study of improving new-inhabitant students’ speaking ability with a self-designed School Shuo-Chang Art curriculum

• Main Authors: Yu-Ching Tang, 唐有慶
• Other Authors: Dr. Chu-Hsun Kuo
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/90439948348148485347

碩士 === 明道大學 === 課程與教學研究所 === 100 === This study aims to explore how the speaking ability of new-inhabitant students could be improved by a self-designed Shou-Chang Art Curriculum. The research was conducted with a case study and investigated 6 new-inhabitant students along with 12 local students in mountain area in Nantou County. Both group of students were introduced to the self-designed curriculum including ‘Children songs curriculum’, ‘Tounge-twister curriculum’, ‘Stand-up comedies curriculum’, and ‘Chinese rap curriculum’ 16 times within 8 weeks. The study then tries to understand the impacts of Shou-Chang Art Curriculum on the presentation of speaking ability among these two groups of students. It is hoped that this study could provide some information to the education practitioners and researchers in terms of speaking ability training. Through analyzing the performance of new-inhabitant students and local students’ speaking ability after they have been introduced to the self-designed Shou-Chang Art Curriculum, the present research has found that: I. New-inhabitant students make more progress than local students in the speed, the rhythm and clarity of speaking as well as the accent. II. Both new-inhabitant and local students make great progress in ‘proper speaking volume’ and ‘loud and clean voice’. III. New-inhabitant students make better progress than local students in accent and fluency. IV. New-inhabitant students make less progress in body language than local students, while both of them need more improvement. V. Both group of students make great progress in the speaking volume. They also make some progress in bearing, story writing, reaction and logic.